The call of Moses and the Exodus story
Subtitle: a redactional-critical study in Exodus 3-4 and 5-13
By: Jaeyoung Jeon
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe -- 60; Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 60.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9783161527265
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Redaction Criticism; Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Redaktion; Bibel
Notes: Revised thesis (Ph. D.)--Tel-Aviv University, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Methodological considerations --; title: Redaction criticism in recent pentateuchal study --; title: Redaction criticism of the pentateuch --; title: The scope and terminology of redaction criticism in this study --; title: A classification of redaction criticism according to its methodological structure --; title: Classical redaction criticism : redaction criticism and the Classical Documentary Hypothesis --; title: Development of the approach --; title: Recent practitioners --; title: R.E. Friedman --; title: W.H.C. Propp --; title: M. Greenberg -- -- Conclusion; title: Excursus : recent studies that diminish the role of the redactor --; title: redaction criticism and form/tradition criticism --; title: Development of the approach --; title: G. von Rad's redaction criticism --; title: Von Rad's formation model for the Yahwist --; title: Author and redactor in von Rad's works --; title: Practitioners of the method --; title: K. Koch --; title: O. Steck --; title: W. Marxen and new testament redaction criticism -- -- Conclusion; title: Composition of larger units and redaction criticism --; title: Development of the approach --; title: R. Rendtorff --; title: Refutation of the Classical Documentary Hypothesis --; title: The deuteronomically stamped texts and the final redaction --; title: Rendtorff's model for the formation of the pentateuch --; title: Rendtorff's redaction criticism --; title: E. Blum --; title: Blum's formation model --; title: Blum's method --; title: Practitioners and their divergent formation models --; title: K. Schmid --; title: R. Achenbach --; title: E. Otto --; title: J.C. Gertz --; title: D.M. Carr -- -- Conclusion; title: The late Yahwist and redaction criticism --; title: Development and practitioners --; title: C. Levin --; title: Levin's model --; title: Levin's method --; title: J. Van Seters --; title: Van Seters' model --; title: Van Seters' method -- -- Conclusion; title: Summary and the method of this study --; title: Summary --; title: The method of this study --; title: Excursus : van Seters' contentions against redaction criticism --; title: Redaction-critical analysis --; title: A redaction-critical analysis of Exodus 3-4 --; title: Introductory remarks --; title: The significance of Exodus 3-4 in recent pentateuchal criticism --; title: The scope of the narrative --; title: Content and literary problems --; title: The various solutions based on formation models of the pentateuch --; title: Solutions based on the Classical Documentary Hypothesis --; title: Modifications of the Classical Documentary Hypothesis --; title: P. Weimar --; title: W.H. Schmidt --; title: A. Graupner --; title: W.H.C. Propp --; title: M. Greenberg --; title: Solutions based on the late Yahwist models --; title: C. Levin --; title: J. Van Seters --; title: Solutions based on recent redaction-critical models --; title: E. Blum --; title: K. Schmid --; title: J.C. Gertz --; title: C. Berner --; title: Redaction-critical analysis of the call narrative --; title: The doublet and the first commissioning (3.7-8, 9-10) --; title: The doublet and the formulaic ... and ... construction --; title: Usages of the ... clause --; title: The ... and ... construction --; title: Caleb's plea to Joshua (Josh. 14.6-12) --; title: Saul's speech to David (lSam. 24.17-21) --; title: The Gibeonites' plea to Joshua (Josh. 9.9-13) --; title: Rabshakeh's speech to the people of Jerusalem (2Kgs. 18.19-25) --; title: Bath-sheba's plea to David (1 Kgs. 1.17-21) --; title: Differences between 2Sam. 7.27f. and Exod. 3.7ff. --; title: D. An Inclusio? --; title: Moses' commissioning in vv. 9-12 --; title: Vv. 9-10 --; title: V. 10 --; title: V. 11 --; title: V. 12a ... --; title: V. 12aßb --; title: The revelation of the name of God (3.13-15) --; title: V. 13 --; title: Vv. 14-15 --; title: The commissioning in Exod. 3.9-15 and the deuteronomic law of the false prophets (Deut. 18.15-22) --; title: Verses 7-8 and the second commissioning (vv. 16-17) --; title: YHWH 's plan for the salvation of the people (vv. 7-8) --; title: The second commissioning (vv. 16-17) --; title: Prediction of the Exodus sequence (vv. 18-22) --; title: V. 18 --; title: Vv. 19-20 --; title: Vv. 21-22 --; title: Moses' objections and the signs (4.1-9) --; title: V. 1 --; title: Vv. 2-8 --; title: V. 9 --; title: Moses' excuse of lack of eloquence and the introduction of aaron (vv. 10-16) --; title: The unity of vv. 10-16 --; title: Vv. 4.1-16, a unity? --; title: The problem of the staff (vv. 17, 20b) --; title: The narrative framework (3.1 -6; 4.18-20) --; title: The theophany (Exod. 3.1-6) --; title: Vv. 1-3 --; title: V. 4 --; title: V. 5 --; title: V. 6a --; title: V. 6b --; title: The relationship to the commissioning layers --; title: Moses' return to Egypt (4.18-31) --; title: V. 18 --; title: V. 19 --; title: V. 20a --; title: The third commissioning (4.21-23) --; title: The bridegroom of blood (vv. 24-26) --; title: Vv. 27-28 --; title: Vv. 29-31 --; title: Provisional conclusion --; title: The second commissioning layer --; title: The first commissioning layer --; title: The 'festival of unleavened bread' layer -- The aaron layer --; title: The 'staff of God' layer --; title: The third commissioning --; title: The extension of the layers of the call narrative in the following narrative of moses' confrontations with Pharaoh (Exodus 5-13) --; title: The second commissioning layer and the passover instruction (Exod. 12.21-27) --; title: The similarity in scene between 12.21-27 and 4.29-31 --; title: The unity of the passage and the problem of the source/layer --; title: Literary features of Exod. 12.21-27a --; title: Exod. 12.21-23, 27b --; title: The literary relationship between Exod. 12.21-23, 27b and the second commissioning layer --; title: The layer of the festival of unleavened bread --; title: Exod. 5.1a, 20-6.1 --; title: Exod. 11.1-3.; title: Exod. 12.34-36, 39 --; title: The laws of the festival of unleavened bread and the firstborn (Exod. 13.3-16) --; title: The connection with Exod. 12.34,39 --; title: The deuteronomic/stic character of the regulation --; title: Literary dependence upon Exod. 34.18-20 --; title: The pre-priestly date of the regulation --; title: The problem of Exod. 13.1-2 --; title: The layer of Moses' staff --; title: The reworking of the episode of the blood plague --; title: Reworking in Exod. 7.15b, 17b, 20a --; title: The priestly wonders and emphasis on Moses' staff --; title: The priestly wonders revisited --; title: The priestly sea narrative as a conclusion to the priestly plagues account --; title: The structure of the priestly wonders --; title: The priestly wonders and the staff of Moses --; title: The reworking of the episodes of Masah and Meribah (Exod. 17.1-7) and the battle with Amalek (Exod. 17.8-16) --; title: The wilderness episode of Masah and Meribah (Exod. 17.1-7) --; title: The staff in the episode of the battle with Amalek (17.8-16) -- -- Summary; title: The relationship between the priestly (Exod. 6.2-7.7) and non-priestly (Exodus 3-4) call narratives --; title: Arguments about Exodus 3 --; title: Dependence upon 2.23ab-25? --; title: Exod. 3.4b ... --; title: The place of revelation --; title: Arguments about Exodus 4 --; title: A reconsideration of Blum's 'Preventive thematizing' --; title: The signs and the priestly wonders --; title: The problem of Aaron --; title: The dependence of the priestly call account on the non-priestly call and plagues narratives --; title: The promise of the land to the patriarchs and Exodus 3 --; title: The Israelites' refusal to listen and the episode of Exodus 5 --; title: Moses' lack of eloquence --; title: The structural function of the P call account -- -- Summary; title: Layers of the call narrative in relation to the episode of the first confrontation (Exodus 5) and the plagues story (Exodus 7-11) --; title: The first confrontation with Pharaoh (Exod. 5.1-6.1) in its literary context --; title: Exod. 5.1b-2 and the redactional framework of the Plagues story --; title: Reflection of the episode of the first confrontation (5.3-6.1) in the compositional framework of the Plagues story --; title: A continuation of the first confrontation episode in the Plagues story --; title: The relation between the first confrontation episode and the negotiation in 8.21 ff. --; title: A literary discrepancy around 8.21 ff. -- -- Summary; title: The literary relationship between the Plagues and call narratives --; title: The compositional/redactional framework of the Plagues story --; title: Reference to the present form of the (non-P) Plagues story in the layers of the call narrative --; title: In the first and second commissioning --; title: The third commissioning and the formulaic --; title: Command in the Plagues story --; title: The festival of unleavened bread layer and the Plagues story --; title: The prediction of the process of the Exodus (Exod. 3.19-22) and the Plagues story --; title: The festival of unleavened bread layer and the announcement of the last Plague (Exod. 11.4-6) --; title: Reference to the call narrative in the framework of the Plagues story -- -- Summary; title: Excursus : the formulaic compositional/redactional framework of the Plagues story -- -- Conclusions -- Summary; title: Assessment of the formation models of the pentateuch --; title: The elohist hypothesis --; title: The Yahwist hypothesis (classical and late) --; title: Post-priestly redaction --; title: Deuteronomic/stic composition --; title: Implications and tasks for further studies ---- Abbreviations-- Bibliography-- Hebrew Bible index-- Index of authors and subjects.